The Airbus A320, such as the one which crashed in the French Alps yesterday, has a solid history of safety.

The cause of the crash of Germanwings flight 4U9525 is still unknown.

Investigators are analysing information from one of the two cockpit voice and data recorders found amongst the debris.

In the last 15 years the Airbus 320 has had 12 accidents. Two of them are under investigation now, the one that happened yesterday and the one that happened in Indonesia in December. Of the remaining 10 eight were human errors. Of the remaining two, one was a bird strike and the other a nose wheel failure. 

Together with the rest of the A320 family of twin-engined, single-aisle jets more than 6,000 are in use several times a day.

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